There was a saying that it is also difficult to imagine Moscow without the Kremlin, like Bobruisk without the Jews. By the end of the 19th century, more than 20 thousand Jews (60% of the townspeople) lived here, 42 synagogues worked, several cemeteries functioned. According to tradition, members of the community were buried on them, regardless of gender, age or social status.

By the beginning of the 21st century, Jews accounted for 0.27% of the population. One Jewish cemetery has been preserved in the city. It is located on Minskaya Street and was founded in the early 1920s.

In the Soviet period, an old Jewish cemetery found itself in the construction zone of a city park. Local residents recalled that schoolchildren and workers during subbotniks in the early 1950s were forced to collect bones at the site of an excavated cemetery. Only a small part of the remains was transferred to the cemetery along Minskaya Street, which became the only Jewish cemetery in the city.

Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn - the grandson of the Lubavitcher rabbi Zalman Schneerson, received permission for the arrangement of the cemetery in 1921. In the 1920s, the attitude of Soviet power towards Jews was neutral. Moreover, due to the prohibition of the Belarusian language, the non-Jewish population of Bobruisk spoke Yiddish. Therefore, the creation of a new Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the city did not raise questions. On the left side of it was a Christian cemetery. After some time, Schneerson was one of the first to be buried in this cemetery. His tomb has survived to this day and has not suffered during the Nazi occupation.

After the Second World War, the cemetery found the burial of Jews killed by the Nazis in several villages of the Mogilev region and the village of Shchedrin, Zhlobin district, Gomel region. In this way, five monuments to the victims of the Holocaust appeared at the Bobruisk cemetery.

By the end of the twentieth century, due to the neglect of the authorities, as well as the emigration of the Jewish population, the cemetery fell into decay. In 2007, vandals desecrated 15 graves, smashed granite slabs, causing $ 12,000 damage to the cemetery. Law enforcement agencies identified the perpetrators, but did not see anti-Semitic implications in their actions. The target of the desecrators of the graves was a stainless steel fence.

Today in the cemetery, there are from 8.5 thousand burials. The exact calculation is complicated by the fact that in some graves three to four people are buried; about 100 more graves were nameless. The cemetery functioned until 1988, and when it turned out to be in the city limits, the burial ceased. The earliest grave in the cemetery is dated 1922.